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Western Xia burial site, recognised for history of cultural fusion, is China’s 60th landmark to earn UN cultural agency ...
Throughout history, the monumental constructions of the ancient world have gripped imaginations as much for their feats of ...
Many people know the rich and legendary history of Greece. However, who knew that the ancient Greeks originated from numerous tribes?
Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the ...
In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.
This Wonder of the Ancient World shone brightly for more than a thousand years. The Lighthouse of Alexandria towered over the port city founded by Alexander the Great.
We find ways, in short, to represent ourselves as crowds -- through the very medium of our crowd-iness. But we're reinventing applause, too, for a world where there are, technically, no hands.
Well, to take a very tame example, when I was a student we barely did the history of women in the ancient world, never mind gender, gender identity, trans politics. That changed with second-wave ...